Changes to our Registration Rules

Our Registration Rules (the Rules) have been updated. The Rules set out how we go about registering people working in social services.

There are changes that may affect you.

We are changing how we communicate with you. The biggest change you will notice is that from 1 April 2016, we will stop sending your fee invoices by post and we’ll send them by email instead.

There is a change to the fee for assessing non-UK qualifications for social service workers with European Economic Area (EEA) recognition rights. The fee has changed from £125 to £320. If the qualification is assessed as not being equivalent to our criteria, some applicants can then opt to take an aptitude test for which we are introducing a charge of £640 for function-based register parts and £790 for social work tests.

You can find out more about non-UK qualification assessment on our website www.sssc.uk.com